Massive Fire Kills 73 People in South Africa
Jumat, 1 September 2023 - 13:00 WIB
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- AP Photo/Jerome Delay.
City officials said 141 families were affected by the tragedy, although they could not immediately say how many people were in the building at the time of the fire. Many of them are believed to be foreign nationals.
A witness who did not give his name told television news channel eNCA that he lives in the building next door and heard people screaming for help, and shouting We are dying here as the fire broke out.
Meanwhile, Mgcini Tshwaku, a local government official, said that there are indications that people lit fires in the building to keep warm in winter. Authorities are investigating the cause of the fire.
After the fire was extinguished, smoke was still seeping out of the blackened windows of the building at dawn.
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